Fly-net



(No Model.)

W. KOOTZ. FLY NET.

No. 546,860. I Patented Sept. 24,1895;

NITED TATESF FFICE.

WILLIAM KOOTZ, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

FLY-N ET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 546,860, datedSeptember 24, 1895.

Application filed July 16, 1894. Serial No. 517,675. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM Koorz, of Milwaukee, in the county ofMilwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Fly-Nets, of which the following is a description,reference being had to the'accompanying drawings, which are a part ofthis specification.

My invention relates to a fly-net, especially to that class of nets thatare manufactured of leather and consist of longitudinal bars or strapsand transverse strings secured to the straps.

The object of the invention is to provide means for utilizing shortstrings, such as are long enough only to extend from one strap to theadjacent strap, or as are of sufficient length to serve for dependingfringe along the sides of the net. Such strings are more readily andless expensively provided than long strings are, and their utilizationis therefore desirable.

The especialpurpose of this invention is the providing a means forsecuring the ends of the strings firmly in the straps or bars withoutthe use of staples, rivets, tacks, or other extrinsic means.

In the drawings, Figure l is a fragment of my improved net, in which isshown all of the parts of a net laterally, but which includes only asmall portion of the net longitudinally. Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan viewof the method of securing the strings in a bar or strap. Fig. 3 is atransverse section of the bar or strap shown in plan in Fig. 2, showing.the method of securing the strings in the strap. Figs. 4 and 5 arerespectively a plan and a sectional View of a modified form of the net,showing another method of making the knot or tie by which the stringsare secured in the strap or bottom. Figs. 6 and 7 are a plan and asectional view, respectively, of still another modified form of net,showing another method of forming the knot or tie by which the stringsare secured in the strap or bar.

In the drawings, A A are the straps or bars, preferably constructed ofleather, which extend longitudinally of the net and are larger andstronger than the transverse strings. These bars may be made narrow andarranged to be on their edges with reference to the top and bottom ofthe net, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, or may be wider and disposed withtheir wide surfaces toward the top and bottom or outside and inside ofthe net, respectively.

The strings B B are secured to the bars A. by being inserted through thebars centrally along its longer transverse axis, as shown at O, and atone edge being turned around the edge of the strap over its side, asshown at D, and thence passing centrally through the bar along itsshorter axis, as shown at E, from which it extends to the right or leftof the bar. This form of knot or tie is made in the abutting ends of twostrings B B, 3, which, as shown, both pass through the bar in the sameslits or apertures therefor, the two apertures through the bars beingmade substantially at a right angle to and across each other. Thismethod of inserting the end of a string in a bar knots or ties thestring about a strand F of the bar, whereby the string is permanentlysecured in the bar.

In the form of device shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the ends of the strings B Bare inserted in a slit or aperture in the bar A along its longertransverse axis, and are then turned over the edges of the bar and arethrust through apertures therefor transversely thereof parallel with itsshorter axis, and are then bent or turned outwardly in the direction ofthe plane of the greater transverse axis of the bar. This method oftying the knot in the end of a string also includes passing the stringthrough the bar in two directions at right angles to each other andbending or carrying the intermediate portion of the string around astrand of the bar.

In the form of device shown in Figs. 6 and 7 the ends of the strings 1313 are inserted in slits or apertures in the bar A along the longertransverse axis of the bar from one edge nearly across the bar, and thestrings are then turned or carried outwardly at right angles thereto andover and about a central strand of the bar and thence in slits orapertures therefor transversely through the bar medially, substantiallyat a right angle to the longer transverse axis of the bar, to the othergreater surface thereof, and are thence turned outwardly parallel tothat surface. This form also includes the passing the strings throughthe bar in one direction and partially through in a direction at a rightangle thereto and car- ECO rying it intermediate thereof around a strandF of the bar, whereby the string is adequately secured in the bar.

It will be observed that the slits or apertures through the bartransversely of each other at the same point are so arranged as tointersect or cut into each other, so that the parts of a string thatcross each other in the bar contact with or bear against each other, soas to bind the parts and hold the end of the string thus secured moresurely against escape from the bar.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. In a fly net, a bar and a string secured at its end to the bar, theextremity of the string being inserted in a slit or aperture therefor inthe bar transversely thereof in one direction, said string continuingthence around a strand of the bar and through the bar transverselythereof in a direction, substantially at a right angle to its said firstdirection in the bar, and projecting laterally therefrom, a

inserted transversely in the bars in one direction, the strings thencecontinuing about a strand of the bar and again passing through the barin a direction at right angles to said first direction,.a part of thestring crossing alongside and bearing against another part of the stringin the bar, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses:

WILLIAM KOOTZ. Vitncsses:

C. '1. BENEDICT, ANNA V. FAUsT.

